Danish diabetes care giant Novo Nordisk's (NOV: N) fixed-dose combination (FDC) therapy insulin degludec/liraglutide (Xultophy, formerly known as IDegLira) is set to become the clinical gold-standard among FDCs used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes.
The competitive advantages that this long-acting insulin analogue/glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 receptor agonist FDC has over other FDCs are due to the combined actions of the highly efficacious individual components on various measures of glycemic control, according to a new report from Decision Resources Group.
Other key findings from the DecisionBase report include:
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